Benefit compliance

Tax reform and fiduciary rule delays dominated discourse in the ongoing effort to improve work-based savings and financial security.

Overtime costs and paid parental leave are some of the regulations companies will need to accommodate, lawyers say.

The proposed legislation would penalize employers for not offering an auto deferral DC plan.

Employers should consider amending their retirement plans so that the definition of disability relies on the determination of a third party.

Tax reform and fiduciary rule delays dominated discourse in the ongoing effort to improve work-based savings and financial security.

From DACA to the tightening of workplace visas, there has been a clear uptick in immigration enforcement activity and employers are feeling the impact on keeping compliant.

The Restoring Overtime Pay Act would increase the minimum salary threshold to $48,412, from $23,660.

The U.S. Supreme Court sidestepped a clash over Houston’s practice of providing benefits to the same-sex spouses of city employees, leaving intact a Texas Supreme Court decision that calls the city’s policy into question.

There are several provisions in the upper chamber’s text that alter existing tax treatment, and experts predict those elements will win out in final law.

Industry experts say the resulting rise in costs is likely to shift to employers and other stable health insurance consumers.